Oct. 26, 2010
Stephanie Schierholz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov
Amiko Kauderer
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
amiko.kauderer-1@nasa.gov
RELEASE: 10-281
NASA HOSTS TWEETUP DURING UPCOMING SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
HOUSTON -- NASA will give 50 Twitter followers the opportunity to go
inside the heart of a space shuttle mission during a Tweetup Tuesday,
Nov. 9, at the agency's Johnson Space Center. Space shuttle Discovery
is scheduled to launch on an 11-day mission to the International
Space Station on Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m. EDT.
Tweetup participants will tour the center; view mission control and
astronauts' training facilities; and speak with managers, flight
directors, trainers and astronauts. The participants also will meet
the team behind the tweets on @NASA and @NASA_Johnson.
"The Tweetup attendees will get to visit the home of mission control
during one of the last two scheduled shuttle flights," said Stephanie
Schierholz, social media manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
"In addition, they will get to share their experience of the
excitement of human spaceflight with their followers around the
world."
Registration opens at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 26, and closes at
10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28. NASA will select participants randomly
from those who register online. For more information about the
Tweetup and to sign up, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/tweetup
Astronaut Nicole Stott, one of the crew members on Discovery's mission
to the space station, will be posting tweets about the mission. To
follow her on Twitter, visit:
http://www.twitter.com/Astro_Nicole
In addition to this mission Tweetup, NASA has invited 150 Twitter
followers to a two-day event Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 for the launch of
shuttle Discovery. To follow the participants as they experience the
launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, visit:
http://twitter.com/nasatweetup/sts-133-launch
Find all the ways you can connect and collaborate with NASA at:
http://www.nasa.gov/connect
For more information about space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
For more information about the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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